Edward Bennett Close
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Edward Bennett Close was an American investment banker and prominent New York social figure of the early 20th century, known as the grandfather of actress Glenn Close.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Bennett Close canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3355831 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Bennett Close Context triple: [Marjorie Merriweather Post, spouse, Edward Bennett Close]
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A.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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B.
George Allen Ross
George Allen Ross was a prominent Canadian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Ross and Macdonald.
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C.
David Dodd
David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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D.
Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Bennett Close Target entity description: Edward Bennett Close was an American investment banker and prominent New York social figure of the early 20th century, known as the grandfather of actress Glenn Close.
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A.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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B.
George Allen Ross
George Allen Ross was a prominent Canadian architect best known as a co-founder of the influential architectural firm Ross and Macdonald.
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C.
David Dodd
David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
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D.
Stanley Reed
Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his generally conservative jurisprudence and frequent defense of governmental authority during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
investment banker ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| affiliation |
New York financial community
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linked to:
Wall Street
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
investment banking ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Betsy Close
ⓘ
Eleanor Close ⓘ William Taliaferro Close ⓘ |
| hasGrandchild | Glenn Close ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a prominent New York social figure in the early 20th century
ⓘ
being the grandfather of actress Glenn Close ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
investment banker ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| relative |
Betsy Close
ⓘ
Eleanor Close ⓘ Glenn Close ⓘ Marjorie Merriweather Post ⓘ Post Cereals family ⓘ William Taliaferro Close ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of New York high society ⓘ |
| spouse | Marjorie Merriweather Post ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity | early 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Edward Bennett Close Description of subject: Edward Bennett Close was an American investment banker and prominent New York social figure of the early 20th century, known as the grandfather of actress Glenn Close.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.